Best of Week 12: Ohio State’s statement, Horns Down bad, Coastal challenges Joey Chestnut and more

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It’s Week 12, and if the games earlier this week gave us any indication of what we’re in for on Saturday, it’s definitely going to be fun. We’ve got a top-10 matchup as No. 7 Michigan State is traveling to No. 4 Ohio State, and later in the day No. 21 Arkansas will face No. 2 Alabama, and No. 3 Oregon faces a tough test in No. 23 Utah.

Come back here throughout the day for the latest results, reaction and revelry from throughout the land.

The Big Ten has become rather predictable in the way that it produces loads of high-quality teams in a given year, and Ohio State always wins. The Buckeyes have won 28 straight conference games going back to 2018’s loss at Purdue, and even against a top-10 opponent in Michigan State, they’re 19-point favorites to make it 29 straight. Despite high-level competition between now and then, ESPN’s FPI gives them a 49% chance of winning their fifth straight Big Ten title in a couple of weeks.

Of course, 49% is a coin toss, not a guarantee. They still have a lot of work to do. Read more from Bill Connelly’s Week 12 preview (ESPN+).

Full schedule: All teams | Top 25

Buckeye bashing

Ohio State wanted to make a statement against Michigan State. Here’s how the first quarter went: 23-yard touchdown to Chris Olave …

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Ohio State QB C.J. Stroud slings a 23-yard touchdown pass to Chris Olave to give the Buckeyes the early lead.

Michigan State punt, 77-yard touchdown pass to Garrett Wilson …

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Ohio State QB C.J. Stroud finds Garrett Wilson in stride for a 77-yard touchdown play to widen the Buckeyes’ lead.

Michigan State missed field goal, 43-yard touchdown pass to Olave …

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Ohio State QB C.J. Stroud flings a 43-yard touchdown to Chris Olave, their second TD connection of the game.

The Buckeyes scored touchdowns on their first seven drives in the first half. Quarterback C.J. Stroud totaled 393 passing yards and six touchdown passes at the break. Think that’s impressive? So does Patrick Mahomes.

Run, Caleb, run!

Oklahoma totaled just 82 rushing yards in last week’s loss to Baylor. Quarterback Caleb Williams had 74 on this explosive touchdown run Saturday against Iowa State.

Davis, a 6-foot-6, 340-pound defensive lineman, has anchored top-ranked Georgia’s top-ranked defense. But on Saturday, he helped the Dawgs’ offense, scoring a 1-yard touchdown against Charleston Southern.

Big man scoop and score

Oklahoma defensive lineman Jalen Redmond showed off his wheels after Key Lawrence forced a Brock Purdy fumble.

Shades of Tim Tebow

Fifteen years after Tebow threw his famous jump pass, Clemson running back Will Shipley did the same on this trick play.

No mercy in the Ivy League

The Harvard-Yale rivalry returns in 2021, and the Crimson showed up in a big way, blocking a Yale punt and returning it 35 yards for a touchdown.

Prime Time back on the sideline

Deion Sanders is back on the sideline for 9-1 Jackson State’s rivalry game against Alcorn State. And perhaps no one is happier than Sanders himself.

Rutgers and Penn State traded punts on the first 12 possessions of their game. But none of them traveled as far as Adam Korsak‘s third-quarter punt that went 74 yards.

And just to be clear, it’s not like San Diego State’s Araiza had a bad game (by his standards) against UNLV on Friday. He had six punts for 285 yards, an average of 47.5, with his longest traveling 59 yards.

Sign him up!

This goes down as an Aidan O’Connell incompletion, but not for this fan.

Bill Murray hits West Point

The Civil ConFLiCT returns!

Remember the Civil ConFLiCT trophy? The, uh, different rivalry trophy that UConn coach Bob Diaco tried to start with UCF? And how neither team seemed all that interested in it? To the point that it disappeared. Well, as the Huskies and Knights renew hostilities today, the trophy is back. (We think.)

It’s all fun and games

Yes, we are still talking about Taylor Swift. And we are happier than ever that Lane Kiffin has listened to the 10-minute version of “All Too Well.”

NIL deal of the week

Good things happen to those who score game winners against Texas, like the several NIL deals Jared Casey has signed.

For more on Kansas’ walk-on hero, check this out.

Big-time celebrations

Why not drop-kick the football after you’ve scored?

Every play is better when it involves a big man like Michael Smith Jr.

Scene in the stands

Well, this person has left the stands and made himself comfortable on this hill.

Latest trends

More kids designing jersey combinations would be for the best, honestly.

The amount of detail that went into these helmets is flat-out incredible.

For more on the best uniforms, check this out.

More must-see

Trayvon Rudolph ran this play to perfection.

This article was originally published by Espn.com. Read the original article here.
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